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 markfaber rated 15 months ago- From the page: "Awesome Pirate Facts!
You Probably Didn't Know!
Awesome Pirate Facts You Probably Didn't Know!
Pirates often didn't get enough vitamin C while on long voyages which resulted in them getting a disease called "crickets" that caused them to go blind ...
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 mesmeriffic rated 9 months ago- Inaccurate and lame. Getting "crickets" from not enough vitamin C? It's called scurvy. Dumb stumble.
- Satan-cakes rated 9 months ago
- ...except that none of them are true.
- aivzdog rated 12 months ago
- Awesome Pirate Facts You Probably Didn't Know
Pirates rock!!!
- oimkmooquack rated 9 months ago
- Not amused...
- SingerK rated 9 months ago
- Yar. Nonsense facts that don't really exist about pirates. I love it!
- tharglet rated 15 months ago
- Not fake/clever enough to be funny
- Miladydoyle rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "Awesome Pirate Facts!
You Probably Didn't Know!" With Tounge FIRMLY in cheek ..here are some NOT so real Prrate facts..lol
- boerbabe rated 9 months ago
- You know those things you always wanted to know about pirates? These aren't them. They are funny though!
- Steeldragon0 rated 11 months ago
- I'm not sure about the authenticity of these facts, but they're still very interesting!
- markfaber rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "Awesome Pirate Facts!
You Probably Didn't Know!
Awesome Pirate Facts You Probably Didn't Know!
Pirates often didn't get enough vitamin C while on long voyages which resulted in them getting a disease called "crickets" that caused them to go blind in one eye. This is why pirates often are depicted wearing eye-patches.
When a pirate said "shiver me timbers" it was actually a request for another pirate to shave an especially difficult to reach portion of his back. While pirates would allow their faces and chests to get hairy, there was a strong superstition against hairy backs. By the way, "shiver" means "shave" and "timbers" means "lower back.""
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